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!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English

!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English
Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition

Thursday, February 9, 2012

get down (3)


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Meaning: to manage to swallow something that isn't easy to swallow
For example:
  • get sth down The food was so awful that he had trouble getting anything down.
  • get sth down The cat didn't want to swallow the pill, but we eventually got it down.
Quick Quiz:
I needed to eat, but I couldn't get anything down because
  1. I didn't have any money
  2. my throat was too sore and swollen
  3. all the shops were closed
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